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The Photographers You Idolize Are No Better Than You
The Photographers You Idolize Are No Better Than You [fstoppers original]
We look up to other people in all aspects of our lives. Most of us admire our parents or an older sibling. We desire to be like those who have "made it" like actors, musicians, or wealthy business owners. As photographers, we probably all have a list of our favorite people in the industry. I'm here to tell you that they are no better at photography than you are.
Fstoppers.com has given me a very unique, inside look into the photography industry. I've had the rare opportunity to have met with and gotten to know a large number of my photography idols. I've been able to ask them the questions that they would never answer on camera, such as "How exactly did you book that job?" "How much did that campaign pay?" or "Are you making more money shooting or teaching at this point?" In many cases, my idols, the photographers who I always wanted to be like, are actually like me already, but in many cases they are just a few years ahead of me. The thing that all of my favorite photographers seem to have in common is that none of them think that they have "made it." Most of them are still constantly struggling to land that next big job or start that next big business idea. I assumed that once you reached "the top" you could relax but I've found that there is no "top". No matter how successful you become, you can always land more jobs, gain more sponsors or raise your rates. It's exciting to set a goal and then reach it but as soon as you do it's time to set another goal.
When I first got into photography my goal was to assist as many professionals as I could to become a well rounded photographer. I assisted commercial, portrait, wedding, food and architectural photographers. I learned a seemingly endless amount of information from each of them, but I was always shocked by how much each of them didn't know. I watched each deal with amateur problems like forgetting to lower their ISO from 3200 for a studio session or forgetting their cameras maximum sync speed and wondering why their flash wasn't showing up or not understanding crop vs full frame cameras or lenses. Many of these photographers didn't understand the basics of Photoshop.
I've also randomly met shooters who have assisted one or more of the most famous photographers alive today. After we've had a few drinks the stories begin to fly and are usually all pretty similar: "You know that million dollar campaign that ________ shot? Well I was there for that campaign and that photographer didn't know what the hell they were doing. Basically I had to come up with that lighting scheme myself." I've heard so many stories about some of the biggest photographers alive today not having a basic understanding of lighting, their camera or post production.
As I've learned all of the industry's dirty little secrets over the past few years it has both inspired and depressed me. It's inspiring to know that the photographers I've looked up to throughout my entire career are not that different from me. It's inspiring to know that even the best photographers in the world still struggle with some of the same things that I do. It's inspiring to know it actually is possible for me to reach their level. At the same time it's completely depressing to think about how much time I spend online learning every technical aspect of my camera equipment only to hear that the last giant fashion campaign was shot by someone who doesn't understand what ISO is.
The title of this article is "The Photographers You Idolize Are No Better Than You" and that is actually a lie. The Photographers you idolize may not know their camera better than you, but they are actually better than you and me both at a lot of other things that matter more.
Client Interaction and Perceived Value
Now this is a story is way over the top but perceived value is a very real thing. Why does a photographer need to shoot with a Hasselblad digital camera to shoot images for a web campaign? Why do you need a 10 million dollar studio to shoot products on seamless? You don't, but your clients appreciate it. I spoke to an art director at a large advertising agency and he told me that they liked to hire a specific photographer because that photographer spent a ton of the photography budget on everyone involved with the shoot. The photographer would hire a professional chef to show up and cook for agency reps. His studio was extremely nice and for the art director "it was so refreshing to get out of our crappy offices and go to his studio for a shoot."
Production Value
The Unnamed Trait
The average person is a talker. They claim to be smart, they claim to be talented and they claim to have great ideas. But they also always have an excuse about why they aren't doing anything. Don't you know a person that is always planning something big but their big ideas never turn out? Every time you talk to them they have given up on the last idea but this new idea is "it" and this time it's really going to work. You probably have very little respect for this person because each time someone promises you something and then can't deliver you lose a little bit of faith in them. It's always easier to "talk" than it is to "do." These same people are the ones that will sit back and look at other people who are doing things and talk bad about them or their projects. These are the people that love to visit websites like ours and attack the writers or the photographers in the articles for not doing a good enough job. The truth is, successful people don't have enough time to hate on other people because they are too busy doing things- like making money.
If there is one thing you take away from this article let it be this: stop talking and start doing. My world is filled with people with "great ideas" that they want me to be a part of. At this point I only want to be involved with people that have proven that they actually can accomplish their goals. Everyone has good ideas, that is not a unique talent. The talent lies in making your idea a reality.
When Patrick and I came up with idea for Fstoppers I tried to get other photographers in the area involved and nobody was interested. If the rolls were reversed I wouldn't have been either. Two wedding photographers had an idea for yet another photography website? We had no experience in web design or video production and we wanted to start a video based website? That's crazy. At the time we were just talkers like everyone else. Through a lot of hard work and luck, Fstoppers did turn into something and because of that one relatively small success, we can say with confidence that we had a pretty ambitious idea and we made something of it. The creation of this simple website has gained me access to the secret club of photographers that "do". Without Fstoppers I would have never been able to meet my idols.
Now you may be thinking, what in the world does this have to do with photography? It has everything to do with photography. No matter where you are in your photography career you need to be creating better images on a weekly basis. This does not mean that you need to take more images, it means you need to create better images. Do you talk about your next concept for a photograph or do you plan it out and shoot it within a few days and then move on to the next idea? When you do shoot for yourself how meticulous are you in regards to the final product? Are you involving the most talented models, stylists and retouchers available in your area? It may be difficult to get the most talented people in town to collaborate with you at the beginning but once you prove yourself, just like we did with Fstoppers, the talent will find you. I bet you have an idea for a single photo or a photography series or a behind the scenes video that you have been thinking about for literally years. Turn off your computer and your TV and actually do it. When you're done with it, enjoy the feeling of accomplishing a goal for a day and then move on to the next idea.
The photographers that I idolize may not be a better photographers than me, technically speaking, but they are far better than me in the areas that actually matter. I am still trying to figure out how to make the jump from average photographer up to the "top" but as I said before, I don't think there is a top. The road to success for 99% of people isn't a jump, it's a steady incline from one successful project to the next. You're not going to go directly from shooting girls on Model Mayhem to shooting a campaign for Prada but if you act like every one of your photoshoots is for Prada I have no doubt you will get there. The photographers that we all look up to had to start from the bottom just like us.
In my mind I am a very average wedding photographer so I am always shocked and flattered to hear that I have inspired someone else in some way. Three years ago, before Fstoppers, I was struggling to book my next job just like all of you and nobody knew who I was. Honestly I'm still struggling to book photography jobs today. I didn't think that Fstoppers would ever turn into what it is now. I simply had an idea and unlike all of my other failed ideas, this one actually worked. I did something and it paid off. I'm honestly no different than you, at best I'm just a few years ahead of you.
I hope that this article has inspired you. I hope you now realize that you are just as capable as anyone of "making it". But the truth is, I didn't really write it for you. I wrote this to myself because I am probably the laziest person I know. I needed to give myself a pep-talk for 2013. There are a lot of ideas that I need to make realities.
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Pastrami-obsessed New Yorkers are finally able to overindulge again at the Carnegie Deli: The meaty Midtown mainstay was back in business Tuesday after being shuttered for nearly a year.
Doors officially opened at 8 a.m., and the hungry horde began to fill up the Seventh Avenue spot for the lunchtime rush.
"I heard it was opening and I had to be there," said Kurt Benjamin, 53, first in line to gobble up a $29.99 "Woody Allen," a mammoth combination overflowing with corned beef and pastrami. "Some people come to New York to see the Statue of Liberty, I go to Carnegie Deli."
"The sandwich was spectacular — I actually saved most of it, so I'm taking it on the plane to make people jealous," he said.
Most of the menu went unchanged despite the 10-month shutdown after Con Edison discovered an illegal gas hookup. But there was one green new staffer in the mix — a pickle mascot.
"I read that Carnegie was hiring in The Post and I called the delivery hotline. I said, 'I don't actually want to deliver, I want to be your pickle,'" said Sylvia Brookoff, a 25-year-old Upper East Side resident who was dressed in a full-body pickle costume and was dishing out some of the briny snacks.
One couple visiting New York for their 44th anniversary relished the opportunity to dig in at their old hangout, which opened in 1937.
"We've been coming here ever since we met. A lot of things have closed since then, but not Carnegie," said Gloria and Fred Colvin, who now live in Virginia.
They used to get their own dishes, but on Tuesday, decided to split a corned beef sandwich.
"For us, when we come to Carnegie now, one sandwich is all we need. That's a lot of food," Fred said.
All the single-meat sandwiches stayed at the same price, but a few combinations including Barry's Delight — a triple-decker stuffed with turkey, corned beef and tongue — went from $24.99 to $29.99. Marian's Midnight "Specials" — two all-beef knockwursts with sauerkraut and baked beans — shot from $16.99 to $19.99.
ConEd shut down the restaurant last April after discovering a diverted gas line while at the deli investigating a leak. The entire Seventh Avenue building was without gas and hot water for months as the Carnegie Deli's owners worked to get the eatery back up to code.

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The materials in this online repository form part of a larger Cornelia G. Kennedy manuscript collection held by the Bentley Historical Library. For a more complete index to the materials, please consult the collection's online finding aid.
For questions or more information, please contact the Bentley Historical Library's Division of Reference and Access Services
Cornelia G. Kennedy, "First Lady of the Michigan Judiciary," was the first woman appointed to the federal bench in Michigan and the first woman to become a chief judge for a United States District Court. Judge Kennedy was nominated to U.S. District Court in 1970 and to U.S. Circuit Court (Federal Appeals Court) in 1979. Although never actually nominated to the Supreme Court, she was mentioned in connection with vacancies there during the administrations of three different U.S. Presidents. This online collection includes biographical materials, photographs, sound recordings, and transcripts created as part of an oral history of Justice Kennedy conducted by Allyson A. Miller as part of the Women Trailblazers in Law Project in 2012.
Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy, the third of four sisters, was born on August 4, 1923 to Elmer and Mary Groefsema. The whole family had strong ties to the University of Michigan as well as an interest in the legal profession. Elmer Groefsema, was a 1917 graduate of the UM Law School who became a distinguished trial lawyer in Detroit. Cornelia's mother had also attended the UM Law School; however, Mary's attendance at law school was interrupted by her untimely death when Cornelia was nine years old.
The three Groefsema sisters to survive infancy all graduated from Redford High School in Detroit and remained close throughout their lives. The youngest sister, Christine Groefsema Gram, earned her Ph.D. in economics; she became a professor at, then president of, Oakland Community College, Auburn Hills campus.
Both Cornelia and her older sister, Margaret, studied law and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School. Cornelia and Margaret practiced law with their father in Detroit until his death in 1952. Both Cornelia and Margaret later became judges, Margaret Groefsema Schaeffer in Michigan's 47th Judicial District Court.
Kennedy graduated from law school in 1947 then served as a law clerk for the Honorable Harold M. Stephens, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was one of the first women to serve as a law clerk in that court and considered it a prestigious appointment. In 1948, she returned to Detroit where she practiced law for 18 years.
By 1965, she was a wife and mother as well as a partner in the private law firm Markle and Markle. Encouraged by her husband, Detroit advertising executive Charles S. Kennedy, Jr., she ran for judge in the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan (i.e., Wayne County Circuit Court, which includes the City of Detroit). Although she lost that election, she ran again successfully the following year. She was elected a Wayne County Circuit Court judge in December of 1966 for the term beginning January 1967.
In September 1970, as the women's movement was enjoying political support throughout much of the nation, President Richard M. Nixon nominated Judge Kennedy to United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan where she also chaired the Bankruptcy Committee for a time. When confirmed by the Senate on October 6, 1970, she became the first woman to be appointed to the federal bench in Michigan, for which she has been called the "First Lady of the Michigan Judiciary."
In spite of heavy workloads in her district court as elsewhere in the federal court system, Kennedy was well-regarded by judicial system administrators in Washington, D.C. as well as by her fellow federal judges. In 1977, she became the first woman to become a chief judge for a U.S. District Court. Kennedy's strength in correspondence with colleagues, prior courtroom and rules committee experience, and perspective as a woman uniquely qualified her for a role both in the development of ethical standards for federal judges and in the improvement of operational procedure in federal courts.
In November 1973, Chief Justice Warren Burger appointed Kennedy to the Judicial Conference of the United States committee known originally as the Advisory Committee on Judicial Activities. This appointment acknowledged her prior experience and marked the beginning of her many future years of service to the federal courts in judicial conferences and councils dedicated to improving judicial practice.
In the spring of 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Judge Kennedy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to fill one of the many new judgeships created by Congress the previous year to ease overwhelming backlogs of cases throughout the court system. The Detroit News reported Kennedy's nomination on March 14, 1979.
However, in spite of her 'well-qualified' rating by American Bar Association (ABA) standards, and much public support, her confirmation was opposed by groups including the NAACP, the Wolverine Bar Association, and others who questioned Kennedy's record on civil rights issues during lengthy hearings throughout the summer.
Judge Kennedy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 25, 1979 and received her commission as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the Sixth Circuit the next day. According to newspaper accounts, both of Michigan's senators had been absent for the vote as Kennedy became the second woman judge in the 6th Circuit Court's history. (Florence E. Allen, the first woman judge in the 6th Circuit, had been nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934). Some of the editorials published at the time of Kennedy's confirmation complained that her nomination had been appraised on political rather than judicial grounds.
Over Kennedy's more than thirty years as a judge in federal appeals court she became an expert in appellate advocacy, also traveling frequently to attend Moot Court sessions at law schools and speaking engagements on the topic at professional meetings. Judge Kennedy assumed federal senior judge status in 1999, continuing to serve as a visiting judge until her retirement from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2012.
During her pioneering career on the federal bench Kennedy achieved some notable 'almost firsts' as well as many 'firsts.' Her name had been put forth in the news media as a possible first woman nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. The first such occasion came in the fall of 1971, at a time when accomplished women were enjoying improved opportunities for career advancement to positions formerly held only by men.
However, in spite of growing political support for an Equal Rights Amendment (which passed both houses of Congress in 1972), perhaps the nation was not yet ready to accept a woman on the Supreme Court. President Nixon's two nominees who joined the Court in that era were Harry Blackmun (1970) and Lewis Powell, Jr. (1972). When the next Supreme Court vacancy occurred, President Gerald Ford was also urged by many to nominate a woman but declined, instead choosing John Paul Stevens (1975).
By 1981, a decade had passed since the public first became aware of Kennedy's eligibility to be the first woman justice. That year, Kennedy was one of two women nominees under final consideration by President Ronald Reagan for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the resignation of Justice Potter Stewart.
In nominating Sandra Day O'Connor, President Reagan finally achieved the objective of nominating the first woman Supreme Court justice. However, for Judge Kennedy, his choice represented personal disappointment for a third time. With characteristic grace when the announcement was made, Judge Kennedy congratulated the new justice, thanked her own many supporters, then resumed her busy work schedule.
In addition to her court caseload, Kennedy continued to serve the legal profession through its bar associations and law schools and the judiciary through its many committees, conferences, and councils. She served on the Board of the Federal Judicial Center from 1981 to 1985, and as a Supreme Court Fellow from 1982 for more than a decade. In 1985, she was appointed by President Reagan to the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, serving there for six years.
Kennedy's years as an active federal judge coincided for the most part with the terms of two Supreme Court Chief Justices: Warren E. Burger, 1969-1986, and William H. Rehnquist, 1986-2005. Although considered 'too conservative' by some of her critics, she reportedly held herself to a high standard of impartiality, 'bound by the law' rather than influenced by political trends or popular opinion. Her admirers considered her to be well-prepared, fair-minded, and consistently successful at maintaining public trust, and sometimes admiration, in her courtroom.
Judge Kennedy assumed senior federal judge status in 1999 and continued to share the workload of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals until her retirement from the court in 2012. As reflected in an abundance of continuing correspondence, she was remembered fondly by her law clerks as well as by her colleagues on the bench. Judge Kennedy died on May 12, 2014 in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan.
The University of Michigan honored Kennedy with a Distinguished Alumni Service Award and Sesquicentennial Award in 1967. She received Honorary LL.D. degrees from Northern Michigan University (1970), Eastern Michigan University (1971), Western Michigan University (1973), the Detroit College of Law (1980), and the University of Detroit (1987).
In addition to the State Bar of Michigan and Detroit Bar Association, Kennedy was an active member of the ABA's Judicial Administration Division and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She was a founding member of the ABA's National Conference of Federal Trial Judges and the National Association of Women Judges.
Although never herself a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, she has been credited with being the first to support omitting any reference to gender or marital status in addressing members of the high court. (By tradition to date, the U.S. President has been addressed as 'Mr. President'). When acting as a Supreme Court Justice during a university law school moot court session early in her federal career, Kennedy stated her preference to be addressed simply as 'Justice,' rather than 'Mrs. Justice,' and the practice became an accepted one for actual Supreme Court justices as well.
In 1971, the Women's Economic Club of Detroit had recognized Kennedy's ground-breaking career role as a federal judge with its "Women Who Work" award. In 2000, she received the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame Life Achievement Award. Her portrait as a federal judge was dedicated in 2002.
Judge Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy died on May 12, 2014 in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. She was 90 years old.
Copyright is held by the Women Trailblazers in Law Project.
Access to digitized sound recordings may be limited to the reading room of the Bentley Historical Library, located on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan.


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The Basics
- Name: Dungeon Park Heroes
- Developer: Chestnut Games
- Genre: Puzzle, RPG
- Price: Free, with ads
The Details
- Installed size: 69 mb
- Best played in short-medium sessions
- Minor bug experienced
- Playable Offline: Yes
What is Dungeon Park Heroes?
Dungeon Park Heroes is essentially a Minesweeper RPG on Android. There are traps to avoid, loot to collect, and monsters to fight as you descend down the dungeon that exists in the center of Dungeon Park. Players can unlock 3 different classes at this time (warrior, mage, archer), and have 45 levels to go through. Levels amount to a game of Minesweeper, with the contents of tiles remaining hidden until a player chooses to step on them. Each tile connected to a trap will have a number next to it, indicating the number of trap tiles it is connected to. Step on a trap, and you might lose HP, energy, or have a dice roll determine how bad your situation will get. There are also monsters to fight, though the fights amount to each side rolling dice to determine damage, with no real input from players beyond choosing to fight or run. This game is an RPG, but without any levels or experience. Instead players accumulate gold that they can spend on equipment that can keep them from getting crushed by the game's monsters. If they do end up dying, or running out of energy, that character will need 24 hours to regain their energy. So you can either switch characters, or watch an ad to instantly get energy for the downed character.
- Levels: 45 (more coming)
- Playable characters: 3 (more coming)
- Stamina system: Yes
- Multiplayer: No
- Social features: Leaderboards
- Graphics quality: Good
- Audio quality: Average
- Audio recommended: No
- UI quality: Average
- Overall presentation: Average
Dungeon Park Heroes might be the best Mineseweeper game on Android. Everything you would expect from Minesweeper is here, along with some monsters to fight and gold to find. The tap controls work smoothly, and the graphics match the game's lighthearted tone. There are no IAPs, and the ads are player initiated. The only drawbacks are that the game doesn't work while screen filter apps like Twilight are enabled, the levels feel a tad small, and the game is a bit light on content at the moment (though more is promised). Even with that in mind, this game is absolutely worth a download for anyone looking for a puzzle game, those that have played way too much minesweeper in their lives, or anyone who grew up a a fan of old pen and paper RPGs.


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Don't be afraid to report online, door-to-door scams: NSW Fair Trading
New South Wales Fair Trading has urged consumers in the state to come forward and report online and door-to-door scammers as it warns that the 1000 scam reports received by the regulator this year are "just the tip of the iceberg".
Speaking at the Norton Cybercrime 2012 report launch in Sydney, NSW Fair Trading assistant commissioner, Robert Vellar, said that people tend not to report scams because they are embarrassed and may not want to be interrogated by an investigator, give evidence or go to court.
"It is extremely important to us that we get information from the community about scammers because that's how we assess the scams and can build an education campaign to alert other consumers to the nastiness at hand," he said.
According to Vellar, the scams reported to NSW Fair Trading range from itinerant conmen/conwomen offering building and home maintenance work to online false billing, bank refund and wealth creation rip offs.
"The Travelling Conman campaign is something that was started in October 2011 by Fair Trading. We've charged 25 individuals with 120 breaches of the law. About 40 have been foreign criminals, predominately from Ireland, with in excess of $300,000 worth of fines and court costs," he said.
Turning to online scammers, Vellar conceded that individuals and groups make the most of technological changes and adapt very quickly.
For example, the regulator received a report from a woman in NSW who was continually called by a telemarketer who claimed she needed to buy anti-virus software and asked for remote access to the woman's computer.
"Her method of dealing with this is that she now engages in small talk with the person for 15 minutes and then tells the telemarketer she doesn't have a computer," he said.
This scam is similar to the Windows Event Viewer scam which first came to Computerworld Australia's attention in 2009 and is still ongoing.
The scam involves telemarketers requesting the recipient's authority to run a Windows program by the same name in order to fix bugs in the operating system. Other callers claim they can remove the virus for a fee and ask for people's credit card details.
Vellar added that some phone scams use Internet based telephony services that can produce a number which looks like the scammer is ringing from a Sydney number when in fact they are calling from overseas.
In addition, Fair Trading received reports during August this year from some parts of regional NSW where scammers were ringing up, pretending to be from Fair Trading and asking questions in order to facilitate money from unsuspecting consumers.
"We have had some success in prosecuting people and getting convictions or jail terms through the Supreme Court," he said. "Many of those cases have been for [online] deception and misleading conduct from scammers who are Australian based."
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BUCS Team Knockouts Entry
These are fully funded by the Athletic Union. All fixtures needs to be confirmed by the club to the Fixtures and Administration Manager. The AU Office will in turn book all transport and accommodation if required. This needs to be done at least a week in advance and this can only be done once the club has confirmed the team with the AU Office.
If your sport requires prior qualification, officials, accommodation and transport will be fully funded from the AU Budget. Please arrange a meeting with the Fixtures and Administration Manager (firstname.lastname@example.com) immediately after qualification.
Results (for home matches) must be reported to firstname.lastname@example.com as soon as you finish the fixture or get back to St Andrews and in any case by 08.30 AM the day after a fixture. It is the team captains' responsibility to check that away matches' results have been accurately entered into BUCScore. Late reporting of results will result in a fine.


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There are a lot of budget airlines that are trying to offer service with less frills. Some of the budget airlines that are out there now will not offer the people that are in the plane snacks, for instance. Other budget airlines are still keeping their prices down but somehow allow each passenger to have their own TV screen from the headrest directly in front of them. I wonder if bt infinity vs virgin is rated online. I would wonder how both of those airlines would be rated by people if I could find a web site that had passengers that wrote about their experiences on either airline.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
The English Tuition Class Has Our Children Teaching Us!
Strong language skills are a necessity to succeed in today's employment markets. Usually those who know multiple languages are chosen over others when the rest of the skills are equal. English is the language of modern business. Every corporate executive knows this, and this is why we wanted our children to be very strong in English. We have them participate in a small class english tuition program that is really advancing them in reading, writing speaking and comprehension.
It is one thing for a person to speak English fluently, and another thing to be able to read and write it fluently. Plenty of executives gain a good foothold on speaking the languages of those who they do business with, but many cannot read and write these languages. We wanted our children to be able to communicate in reading, writing, speaking and understanding the languages used in business today.
Both our son and daughter, who are twins by the way, have strong technical skills.
Just Signed the Lease on My New Place
I have been here in Singapore for quite nearly a week now and I have almost gotten the basics down. I am living in a small one bedroom apartment about three and a half blocks away from the skyscraper where my office is located. It is rather expensive, but of course it is not like I was going to find anything particularly cheap in this city. The recruitment agencies probably exaggerated a bit on some of the better qualities of the city to be honest. It is extremely cramped here and I am thinking that it is really going to be difficult for me to get used to it. Of course I come from a rather expansive place called New Mexico and we have about five hundred acres for every person in parts of the state.
My Daughter Understands Her Schoolwork Much Better Now
My daughter has high expectations for herself, so she was extremely dismayed when she found herself struggling with one of her science courses at school. Material has always come easy for her, so this was a brand new experience for her, and it was one that she did not like at all. She studied at home even more, but she could not grasp the material easily enough. I did some research and came across a home tuition singapore company that seemed to be the perfect answer to our problems. They are a company that matches up tutors with children and adults that need help with a certain subject.
I was surprised to see how many different areas they over.
About Ready for the Baby
My father in law came over today and brought us a graco stroller he had found on sale on the internet. That was one of the things that we had held off on, because obviously we are thinking that you do not really need it at first when the child is really tiny. An 8 pound baby is pretty easy to carry around without the stroller I would think. At any rate those things are a bit expensive and we are not really sure what we should be spending on one.


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Igloo Glide PRO Cooler (110-Quart, White) Review
On a hot day, by the beach nothing comes close to a cold soda. Now imagine having a big cooler with the capacity to hold all your drinks and food and most importantly keep them cold for long. An industry first, the Igloo Glide PRO Cooler (110-Quart, White) not only has a large capacity but also boasts a host of features and specifications that make it one of the most versatile coolers in the market. From the locking handles to the large wheels and a drain channel, everything about the Glide PRO depicts innovativeness effectively making this cooler among the Best Coolers to spend your money on.
Product Features and Benefits
Ultratherm Insulated Body – The Igloo Glide PRO Cooler (110-Quart, White) can keep your drinks and food frozen for 5 days straight thanks to the ultratherm insulated body and lid that can keep the internal temperature at 90 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that you can don't have to worry about your perishables going bad or drinks not getting cold enough particularly when you are on an outdoor trip.
Patented horizontal Slide-and-Lock Telescoping Handle – The Glide PRO, unlike the Igloo Iceless Thermoelectric Cooler mimics a dock cart with handles that pull out and side for ease of storage. The unique handle allows for easy pulling of the cooler while the large wheels ensure that you can drag the cooler on any terrain without getting tired. The handle also eases lifting of the unit.
Sturdy Hinges – One of the biggest problems with most portable coolers is the seemingly weak hinges that break with a few uses. However, the Igloo Glide PRO Cooler (110-Quart, White) is fitted with practically indestructible zinc plated metal hinges even after years of use. Also, this cooler has a sleek design that is pleasing to the eye.
Cool Riser Technology – The Igloo Glide PRO Cooler has a unique technology that enhances its cooling performance by reducing the surface contact. The Cool Riser Technology works by allowing air flow beneath the items inside the cooler thus helping them remain cold for long.
Stainless Steel Lids Straps – To ensure that your drinks or food items are safely tucked inside the cooler, this unit has lid straps that lock the lid securely even when moving the cooler on a bumpy terrain. The straps, in essence, ensure that the contents are safe. The top also comes with and integrated fish keeper measuring tool.
UV Inhibitors – While the Igloo Glide PRO Cooler (110-Quart, White) is predominantly made using plastic materials it is sealed with UV inhibitors and infrared technology to protect it against damage from the sun.
- Incredible performance and ability to keep ice for 6 days
- Metal hinges unlike most coolers
- Large wheels for increased mobility
- Tow handle construction
- Low, affordable price despite the host of features
- Remarkable versatility
A section of the users says that the latches are flimsy. While this might be the case the locks can be replaced, and that does not in any way affect the usability of the cooler
Others say that the cooler is relatively heavy but if you use the Slide-and-Lock Telescoping Handle and the large wheels lifting and moving the cooler around becomes easy.
The Bottom Line
Considering what the Igloo Glide PRO Cooler (110-Quart, White) has to offer and the price it goes for, it is right to conclude that this cooler offers much more for less. Irrespective of your needs, the Glide PRO will handle it all. And best of all, it is build to last and even has a one year warranty attached to it.


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Successful Dog Training Starts at Home!
Wouldn't it be wonderful to take your dog places and have people compliment their exceptional behavior?
Have you ever been out at a park or picnic and think to yourself how great it would be if you your dog was there to enjoy the day with you? You want so badly to engage with them during those fun times, but the apprehension of not knowing exactly how things will go, may cause you to exclude your pet from valuable, memory-making moments. This is very discouraging and disappointing for people who dreamt about the perfect dog-to-be when they brought home that bundle of joy. Don't get overwhelmed because you CAN have that dog of your dreams! You can become the envy of your neighborhood and be proud to take your dog anywhere. If you are anything like me, you strive to spend as much time with your furry companions as possible. This is not too much to ask and feeling anxious or wary about the "what ifs" steals the pleasure from the potentially wonderful pet/owner relationship. We all have enough to worry about in life without having to deal with feelings of guilt or frustration with something that is supposed to come with happiness and fulfillment. If this hits close to home, just know that change can happen and with a little patience and confidence, you will find success.
So, I know you are wondering what you can do to make this happen, but maybe you are overwhelmed with the information out there and have no idea where to start. That's OK! If you feel unprepared or confused, you are in the right place. I'm going to share a couple of extremely helpful tips to remember when beginning to work with your dog that will be sure to help get you on the right track. It is actually easier than you may think.
How Long Should Dog Training Sessions Last?
Keep the training sessions short and productive. 15 minutes is a good time block for most dogs. Just like when we are learning new things, repetition is key! The more we do things, the better we get. It is exactly the same with our dogs. However, don't bite off more than you or your dog can chew, so beginning with the basics, such as sit, down, stay, paw, come, etc. is the best way to start the bonding process. As far as the 15 minute guideline I recommend for training sessions, it is because dogs can find it difficult to concentrate and stay focused for long periods of time like many of us, I'm sure. What we don't want to happen is for your dog to become apathetic or stressed from extended stimulation. If you notice these signs or you begin to feel frustrated, it is best to discontinue the session. Try to end on a positive note, as they are more likely to be eager for next time. Please feel free to perform multiple sessions a day as long as both you and your pup are up for it. Practice makes perfect, right?
Where Should Dog Training Sessions Occur?
The second tip to remember is to train your dog in multiple locations. This teaches the dog that certain behaviors are not just expected in the living room, but they must perform the same no matter where they are. At first, you will want to begin sessions in a distraction-free environment and then gradually work your way up to the point that location becomes less relevant. Begin at home with just you and the dog. Next, you could have your kids or family members present and going about their business. Then, you can work outside where there other distractions such as, kids playing, dogs barking, traffic noise, etc. Eventually you will find yourself enjoying time at the dog-park or family reunion and he is instinctively on his best behavior. Your dog's new-found attitude will become second nature and how rewarding it will be for you both!
Do yourself and your dog the biggest possible favor by teaching them how to be the best family members they can be. Working so closely and continuously with them will create an unbreakable bond and they will thank you for it. Please know that we CAN help you achieve that bond. We can guide you with basic training, mild to severe behavioral issues, and problem-solving skills that will make the time with your dog the best it can be!


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CBS Launches New "Loveline with Amber Rose" via Play.it Podcast
CBS Radio and CBS Local Digital Media are reviving the Loveline brand, ambulance via a new weekly podcast on the Play.it network. Loveline with Amber Rose hosted by feminist, order author, and model and actress Amber Rose, will be available every Thursday via LovelineWithAmberRose.com and iTunes, beginning September 8th. The original Loveline program spanned multiple generations of listeners debuted in 1983 on CBS Radio's alternative rocker KROQ Los Angeles (and at one point MTV viewers) who called in to get their questions on sex, relationships and more answered live on-air before the program's nationally syndicated run ended this past April.
"We're excited to relaunch Loveline as a Play.it original," said CBS Radio EVP/Programming Chris Oliviero. "Amber's modern take on love and relationships is not only an ideal fit for the evolution of this iconic franchise, but she will also help further expand the reach and appeal of our entire on demand platform."


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Monroe, NY Estate Sale
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December 17, 2010 – Smutty Shout-Outs
Rebekah! Happy Birthday! It's a tradition, yes. But I also feel like it's our anniversary. THANK YOU for reading my smut for so long. And hooker, when you bring up Nurse Jackie and Arcade Fire, I'll grant any request. Unfortunately, I swear, I don't yet have video of me singing karaoke. As soon as this happens, I promise you, no matter how bad I am, I will post it. You've my word. However, I will tell you my go-to songs. Complicated by Avril Lavigne and Take a Bow by Rihanna. And I get really, really into it too. Don't judge! Have a great, great, great time this weekend. Big hug!
To Farah who is out of school for holidays but still has to pay her phone bill – sigh, oh the joys of being young. I had to laugh at your request for Ryan Kwanten, Taylor Lautner, Nick Jonas, and Steven R McQueen though. Because at the end of that, I was like – what does that child know of Steve McQueen? Then I realised there's an actual young Steven R McQueen. Anyway, please find all your boys attached, and for your sister Aya, Robert Pattinson and Alex Skarsgard too.
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Looking for a unique gift? We have a huge selection of small original art, sterling silver jewelry, pottery, handmade items, cards and much more on display; all made locally by our members.
Children can make holiday Candy Lighthouses for free on the 24th & 25th!
Dates: Opening Friday, November 24 & Saturday, November 25, 10am-4pm
Continuing through December 12, 9am-4pm daily
Entry day: Monday, November 20, 10am-2pm. Fee: $10
Pick-up: Wednesday, December 13, 10am-2pm
- Membership must be current
- Inventory sheet required, items should be marked with name & price
- $10 entry fee for the lot
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BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. >> The Sagamore Hotel in Bolton Landing officially launched its annual Glacier Ice Bar on Friday night, just in time for guests arriving from across the region and out of state to celebrate the two-week long event. This is the fifth year the Sagamore is hosting the event, which has grown exponentially in popularity and has caused a ripple effect of other "Ice" events from Bolton Landing and down into Lake George Village, adding to the wintertime economy.
The 18,000-pound ice bar, the focal point of the event, is in the tented Shelving Rock Terrace located at the lower level of the hotel and measures approximately 20 feet in length. It will serve as the full-service bar for the entire two weeks the event is held, and it has features like the "luge" for funneling chilled vodka into glasses.
In addition to the bar, other ice sculptures are strategically placed throughout Shelving Rock Terrace, as well as outdoors, in the covered patio known as Dollar Island Terrace Bar. The sculptures on display evoke images familiar to Lake George visitors and residents, with this year's sculptures including a largemouth bass, tall café-style tables for guests to rest their cocktails, and a frozen re-creation of the famous paddle steamboats that transport tourists around the lake on their daily tours. Standing guard at the Dollar Terrace Bar is a reproduction of the locally famous "Lake George Monster," the area's own version of the Loch Ness monster.
According to the Sagamore's general manager, Tom Guay, the opening evening went off without a hitch and he was very satisfied with the attendance so far. "Any opening night is the time to get the kinks out," said Guay, and he pointed out that the entire property is open for business, with bars located both indoors and outside, as well as the very popular Lakeview Bonfire where guests can make their own s'mores over a toasty firepit. The hotel expects to be booked for both weekends of the event.
Guay noted that the bar and sculptures are covered each night at 10 pm with "space" covers – silver puffy coverings designed to keep the ice cold and intact.
On Saturday following opening night, the property was bustling with activity, with valets busily greeting guests and parking cars and day visitors being shuttled to the main lobby from designated parking areas below the main gate to the property. Day visitors who opted not to park and walk or take the hotel shuttle could pay $10 for a day-long access to the property.
According to Guay and other people attending the event who are residents of Bolton and Lake George, the annual Glacier Ice Bar has been great for the local economy, boosting visitors to the hotel, as well as to nearby venues. Last year, the village of Bolton Landing officially got in on the festivities with its own "Bolton on Ice" event. They are continuing that tradition in 2018, with restaurants offering specials and local retailers open for business with aggressive seasonal sales to entice buyers. One ice bar attendee remarked on how great the sales were at the shops in the village.
Other guests planned to make the rounds of the other events taking place, including Funky Ice at the Adirondack Brewery in Lake George Village, followed by dinner at Neptune's. One group from Ravena Coeymans said that they stay at the Fort William Henry resort in Lake George Village, just one of several hotels in the area that benefit from the ice festivals.
Contrary to the name of the event, which indicates that it is a mostly alcohol-related event, many people were at the Sagamore to enjoy winter activities like skiing, snow-shoeing, hiking and sledding. A group from Averill Park who were enjoying lunch in the indoor lobby bar and lounge, had just completed a morning-long hike at a nearby recreation area. Another group had just returned from a brisk outdoor run and were heading to the Sagamore's spa for massages.
Other guests came from as far as Philadelphia. Many of Saturday's attendees said they are longtime visitors to the region or owners of second homes and camps on the Lake, who come to enjoy the winter season on Lake George.
The event also attracted multiple generations. One woman from Schenectady, who has been coming to Lake George for 40 years and now owns a home in nearby Diamond Point, brought her mother to the Ice Bar for the first time. "I said that, when I move here, I'm coming to the Ice Bar," said Gloria Lemansai, who recently relocated to the area from Long Island.
Another couple from Burnt Hills said that they are regular guests of the Sagamore, calling it their "anniversary destination." Sharon Peterson of Saratoga Springs brought her daughter, Lisa Birkland Shohen of New Jersey to the visit the Ice Bar on their way to visit Peterson's other daughter and her new grandson in nearby Glens Falls. This was Peterson's third year attending the event and Shohen's first. However, she said it would not be her last.
The Glacier Ice Bar will remain open through the weekend of January 27-28 and Bolton on Ice will also be in full swing.


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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – For the second straight year, former King University women's wrestler Alli Ragan earned a spot on the U.S.A. Senior World team to compete in the World Championships. On Thursday, Ragan competed in the 58 kilogram weight class, and advanced to the bronze medal bout where she dropped a tough decision to Anastassia Huchok of Belarus.
In the first period, Huchok got a take down on Ragan to take a 2-0 lead after the first stanza. Trailing 4-2 with less than minute left in the second period, Ragan earned a take down to even the score at 4-4. She nearly got the fall, but time expired in the bout with the score even at 4-4, leaving the decision up to criteria which Huchok won because she had two two-point moves to Ragan's one.
Earlier in the day, the Carbondale, Illinois native started the competition with a comeback win over Aisylyy Tynbekova of Kyrgyzstan. Ragan trailed 4-0, but came back to take the 7-6 victory to advance to the quarterfinals where she faced three-time Olympic champion and eight-time world champion, Kaori Icho of Japan.
Icho took the 10-0 technical fall victory, dropping Ragan into the repechage round. This time it was Ragan than earned the technical fall victory to advance to the bronze medal bout. Ragan defeated Asem Seydametova of Uzbekistan 10-0, setting up the bronze medal bout against Huchok.
WIN Aisylyy Tynbekova (Kyrgyzstan), 7-6
LOSS Kaori Icho (Japan), tech. fall 0-10
WIN Asem Seydametova (Uzbekistan), tech. fall 10-0
LOSS Anastassia Huchok (Belarus), 4-4 criteria


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Plymouth, Michigan, 48170
Phone: 734-453-0190
Fax: 734-453-1504
Those who sing pray twice.
- St. Augustine (5th cent Bishop from North Africa)
In no less than 254 times do we find biblical references encouraging the faithful to make music. From the time of earliest records of civilization, music has been a central component of a community's ability to make meaning, express its deepest held convictions, celebrate and mourn life events and create cathartic and expansive experiences bringing together individuals into a united expression of the whole. The church is one of many venues where music has found its place as a central element of expression and component for building community.
The ethos and definition of what is now considered "church" or "religious" music has expanded over the past century moving beyond a formerly limited canon of classical Western European hymnody. At St. John's we have embraced an increasingly expansive expression of music believing that both "ancient" and "modern" music can inspire, assist and ignite our passion in the context of worship. Music for us forms a vibrant expression and invitation to worship God and to experience a wide-range of what has been called the most universal language.
Whether we are singing from our 1982 Episcopal Hymnal, clapping and stomping to a call-and-response gospel song, chanting the psalms in the ancient monastic practice, or singing a secular/contemporary piece with new contextual meaning, all is done with the belief that in fact when a congregation "sings" it does indeed pray twice.
St. John's Music Ensembles
Adult & Senior High Youth
Rehearsals: Sundays at 9:00am and 11:15am in the Choir Room
Sing in Worship: Each Sunday from September 10 - June 3
SJP Festival Choir: Throughout the year, there are opportunities for anyone to join the choir just for the day! Stay tuned for the next Festival Choir Sunday. All are welcome!
Adult & Senior High Youth
Rehearsals: Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30pm in the Sanctuary
Rehearsal Dates: Sept. 20 & 27, Oct. 4 & 11, Nov. 8, 15, 22 & 29, Dec. 6
Playing in Worship: Oct. 15, Nov. 26, Dec. 10
Adult & Senior High Youth
Rehearsals: Wednesdays from 6:00-6:30pm in the Bell Annex
Rehearsal Dates: Sept. 20 & 27, Oct. 4 & 11, Nov. 22 & 29
Playing in Worship: Oct. 8, Nov. 5, Dec. 3
Youth Kindergarten - 8th Grade
Youth Music Sessions: Sundays at 11:15am in the Music Annex (beginning Sept. 17)
Performance Dates: Oct 29 ~ Pipes Spooktacular
Nov 5 ~ Feast of All Saints
TBD ~ Advent/Christmas Pageant
Contact person for Joyful Noise Choir: Jacob Carroll, SJP Music Scholar
Contact Liza Calisesi Maidens, Director of Music/Organist
In addition to the weekly gifts that the members of St. John's and the Music Ministry so generously offer, we are pleased to welcome these guest musicians to our sacred space during Lent. Come and See.
Notes from Liza Calisesi Maidens, Director of Music
August 6-10 ~ 9am-12pm
For children age 4-grade 5
Registration beginning April 1
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AppAgile BIG Data Practise contains a couple of products:
BIG Data as:
|Small Volume
|for GB's of data
Running withing PaaS/Container-Services
Highly flexible and Instantly available
Apache Hadoop per default
Small Volumeis available on any platform we do support (Private, Public Cloud OTC/Azure)
|BIG Volumes
|for TB's of data
Running on optimized hardware (bare metal cloud), providing optimized setup price/performance as managed service
Cloudera Hadoop as default
Hortonworks and MapR available.
|HUGE Volumes
|for PB's of data
Really BIG Data with massive amount of data. These environments are usually highly customized to bring cost down for storing data as well as providing connectivity to connect that data with other systems.
Cloudera Hadoop as default
Hortonworks and MapR available.
On Top we provide differnt kind of analytics serives:
|Data Science Workbench
Providing a workbench for data science to analyze data, create new data models, ingest, combine data in different ways to get new KPI's, communicate in communities.
The workbench is based on a set of open source tools like:
The Data Science workbench is available in a separate Container-Repository.
The repository is being maintained by our Data Science Engineers – they helo to bring newest Libraries and Tools to the workbench.
Data Scienties who are subscribed to the workbench can request and vote for engineering task to make sure that most wanted features are delivered first.
If you need to connect and transfer different data pools, then we provide talend as one of our partners to deliver the right tools.
A container-service is planned.
Today talend is available on bare metal/VM.
|SAS is well known for highly sophisticated visuals and analytcs. I t helps customers to modernize DWH setups, consolidate multiple DWHs and grow into the hadoop world. If SAS is currently used in your company, we offer you a managed service for SAS analytics on top of hadoop.
|Datameer privides a full analytics and visualization platform from one hand. If you expect a full service, datameer might be worthwhile to have a look on it.


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PT Suzuki Indomobil Sales invites the media to experience the latest automatic transmission excellence embedded in Suzuki Ertiga.
A total of 18 units of Suzuki Ertiga automatic transmission PT SIS prepared in the course of this time. The Suzuki Indonesia alone this time to invite the media to be able to feel the Bogor city sights in the rainy city.
Suzuki Ertiga is a family car that is suitable for a walk with your baby. Therefore we invite the media to feel the comfort of the latest automatic transmission while the road menikamati Ertiga Bogor and diverse attractions.
Suzuki Ertiga brings automatic transmission variant to meet the needs of Indonesian families, especially in the big cities that have a lot of congestion.
Well, look forward to further reports from the media test drive event Ertiga Suzuki automatic transmission.


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All Films.All Above Board.NOW INCLUDES TV SHOWS & TV LISTINGS
A tribe of pearl divers is dominated by an evil hunter who passes himself off as an island god. The jungle-dwelling hero comes to the rescue with the aid of a native girl on the brink of being forced into marriage, but faces a series of dangers including a battle with a giant octopus. Adventure, starring Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Linda Christian, George Zucco and Andrea Palma


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We must keep in mind the following acpehalic points of Bataille's Programme drawn up in 1936. An important periode as the Great Depression ruled Europe and many intellectuals were dissatisfied with the parliamentary democracy, the industrial revolution. The Conservative revolution in Germany was the strongest outburst of dissatisfaction, but Bataille also shared a number of ideas. We must keep in mind though that Bataille did not seek for the birth of a new 'political' movement, but his Weltanschauung certainly had a return to the Sacred in mind for the West.
1. Form a community, creative of values, values creative of cohesion.
2. Assume the function of destruction and decomposition, but as an accomplishment, and not as a negation of being.
3. Realize the universal accomplishment of personal being in the irony of the animal world and through the revelation of an acephalic universe.
4. Take upon oneself perversion and crime, not as exclusive values, but as integrated within the human totality.
5. Realise the personal accomplishment of being and its tension through concentration, through a positive asceticism and through positive individual and collective discipline.
6. Fight for the decomposition and exclusion of all communities socialist, nationalist, communist or churchly.
7. Affirm the reality of values, the resulting inequality of men, and acknowledge the organic character of society.
8. Take part in the destruction of the existing world, with eyes open to the world to come.
9. Affirm the value of violence and the will to aggression insofar as they are the foundation of all power.
Meditate on these words and incorporate them in your Sacred Weltanschaung. Today's ultra political correctness and cheap leftist anthropocentrism has turned many of these statements into negative, forbidden and in-human principles. Yet our mysticism is of a Nietzschean kind: tragic, organic and true to the Eorthe, vibrant, the affirmation and destruction of life, truly human, un-relentless, poetic & mythological. These statements are of an ultimate aeonic importance as they lay the foundation of a possible new Western world / civilization to come. One we cannot envisage or practically aim for, but we need to be reminded of a possible Return to the Origin of the West: the Greek bewilderment. This present World cannot be our aim as it would stifle our actions, but we must always remind ourselves of our Gnostic origin and the discontinuous state of Being.
As Christos Beest (ONA) once explained the 'earthing' of acausal, Numinous forces is done by adepts and initiates of the Sinister Path, by warriors, poets and artists, and thus 'earthing' is laying/preparing the esoteric foundation of a new world to come.
Like Bataille we want to cultivate and re-instate the Sacred again and we genuinely believe in the need of an elective headless (anarchic – Jünger) communities in order to unleash the Numinous forces again. Bataille referred to these "as a secret society, network" or even an "order" in the truly religious or initiatory sense. Such communities were/are the setting for the examination of and experimentation with "truths that lacerate, which absorb those to whom they appear and is even animated by a movement which distances from them." (Irwin, Saints of the Impossible, p. 19). The idea was to corrode the wider society through the sacred energies embodied by the community focused on figures of Death (our Sein-zum-Tode) and beyond any instrumental logic." Acéphale had no explicit 'political' agenda, no goals beyond this one: "Existence, that is to say tragedy". Our prophet aimed at a shattering of the "principle of the head" as all revolutions have historically lead to just another tyranny (one "head") based on mundane and worldly power.
The "head" so to speak sucks up all the blood, all the vitality of the society, and therefore paralyzes all vitality, creativity by turning it into an obedient, lifeless servility. One must not forget that a society, a community is an organism just like our bodies and the blood needs to flow freely through the organism. There can only be a 'leadership' in the occult sense: those who have been initiated and gone through several ordeals. Their fearless and harsh leadership is beyond the need for power or domination, as they have transcended hubris. They are devoted to the collective and its numinous connexion.
Such communities, like the Nexions of the Sinister Tradition, genuine monastic orders exist beyond the mundane realm. Of course, they participate in 'mundane' actions such as taking care of and protecting each other, educating each other, making dinner, growing vegetables and so on, but all in harmony with their natural surroundings. These actions have become Numinous and therefore 'reason', as promoted by the Enlightenment and positivist science, has been left behind. These Acéphalic communities are not 'managed', but they are alive, they thrive from the blood energy of their member who remain faithful to ancient traditions and to the land where they have grown up. Therefore according to Bataille: "The formation of a new structure, of an 'order' developing and seething through the entire earth, is the only real liberatory act – and the only one possible." (Irvin 20).
Like Bataille we genuinely are fed up with the inertia (still present) of the West, and we are dissatisfied with the instrumentalism that dominates the hegemonic Weltanschauung and so, poetic-ontologically, we have no choice but to think of alternatives. Today, orders such as the Order of Nine Angles, the remaining medieval monastic orders, occult groups with a Pagan Weltanschauung, Traditionalists all carry with them the everlasting flame, Pneuma of the Deus Absconditus. The life forms that are (being) established by them form that very alternative. As the West is slowly dying, infested by its own corruption and greed, these communities (even when they come and go) are the sign that alchemical gold grain of the West is not lost and still fertile.
These manifestations of the Vril strengthen me: GA WATH AM! The JOY before DEATH!
Von Sanngetall, 128 yf


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One of the greatest obstacles, at least in the novice real estate investor's mind, is finding out how to finance a prospective property. If your goal is to buy and hold real estate for the long haul, then conventional loans will be your ideal choice. All lenders offer conventional loan programs and lenders compete against one another for your business. But still, the loan process can sometimes be a bit intimidating and usually it's due to the loan officer.
Mortgage companies make loans. That's how they make money, pay their employees and keep the lights on. Loan officers are paid to find new business, bring it in the door then go out and find more. Good loan officers will close 5, 10 and even 20 loans per month and veteran loan officers with considerable volume make an income well into six figures regularly.
The situation today is the mortgage market is commoditized, meaning there's little difference between one lender and another other than the marketing message. Lenders originate, underwrite and approve mortgage applications using guidelines that every single lender uses.
What happens is that through the day in and day out mortgage market, the lender and the loan officer alike can sometimes treat their business as a process and not what it really is; helping others achieve their dreams. Do you remember when you bought your first home and moved in? How did you feel? You felt proud, achieved. You knew that you accomplished something that will impact you for the rest of your life.
But when the loan approval process becomes just a little too routine for mortgage companies, they forget about who they're working for and instead concentrate on what they're doing. Loan officers spout a flurry of mortgage-speak that's unintelligible to borrowers, especially someone who is taking the leap and buying their first rental. Borrowers can be intimidated because the loan officer creates that environment, leaving a borrower tentative and afraid to ask important questions.
It's not supposed to be that way. As a real estate investor, you're providing someone with a home. A place to live and a place where they too can begin to save enough money to buy their very own home. Don't be afraid of the mortgage process. If you feel that way, you're talking with the wrong bank.


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The consistency and integrity of the brand plays a key part in every project we do for Marie Stopes International, from internal communication templates to strategy plans.
Marie Stopes International (MSI) delivers quality family planning and healthcare to millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women.
We design OpenDoor Magazine, a printed quarterly publication which promotes enthusiasm and increases motivation throughout the organisation by sharing targets, success stories, news and viewpoints.
Ellipsis were originally asked to help create an identity for the MSI five year strategy, 'Power of 10'. We designed a simple, yet effective logo combining an iconic number 10 with text, enabling the mark to be just as striking in other languages as well as English.
In addition to the logo, we produced a engagement Power of 10 toolkit for offices across the world. The pack included a welcome video message from the CEO, a strategy summary, a team activity, posters, a feedback postcard, PowerPoint presentations and a memory stick containing the full strategy document. All materials were created in English, French and Spanish.
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Windows 7 Pro - Not Genuine
Hello there,
Quick intro. Machine at odd times shows that it is genuine.. next thing you know is that it says in bottom left corner that it is not genuine. If I go to properties in mycomputer and look at the activation area it says I have 3 days to activate, I click activate and it activates, genuine, leave machine alone for awhile and come back.. not genuine..
On a side note, if I change the UAC from anything other then OFF ( bottom notch ) pc will not log in and basically throws a error about eventeng.exe runtime. I have to leave the UAC off to be able to log into windows.. I have already done all my updates, sfc scannow and all is clean and good. In fact the machine is running perfectly fine with the exception of those two items above.
I have run hitman pro, I have eset NOD 32 on the machine, etc.. the machine is clean, and virus / malware free.
Here is my code:
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|26 Mar 2014
The report shows the system as being licensed and genuine - it sounds as if you may be having system problems that just get in the way of the Software Protection Service every now and then.
Please follow the Windows Update Posting Instructions and post the requested data
Please open Event Viewer
In the left pane, navigate to the Windows Logs
right-click on Applications and select 'Save all events as...' save as Apps.evtx
repeat for the System logs - save as Sys.evtx
Compress both files, and attach to your reply or upload to your favourite fileshare site (preferably Dropbox or OneDrive/SkyDrive) and post a link in your reply
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|26 Mar 2014
Hello NoelDP. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I already rebuilt it. It would have been nice to see if the errors could be alleviated, but I did not have the time, this time. Thanks for the reply. Thanks for the attempt. I appreciate your time.
Kind regards,
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|26 Mar 2014
No problem :)
Good luck with the new build!
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Draw My Life
18 February 2016
DCA is working with young people from Newcastle and Downpatrick for Draw My Life.
Using the popular YouTube meme 'Draw My Life' artist Graham Ginty is working with a group of young people to create short animations. Funded by Children In Need the project has provided young people with an opportunity to talk about experiences they face in everyday day and the challenges they are presented with. It is planned that the finished shorts will be shown at a showcase event in Down Arts Centre


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Madonna is in shock – and she is rarely speechless. Insiders say her young boyfriend has mustered up the courage to propose to her! 53 year old Madonna was flabbergasted when 24 year old dancer Brahim Zaibat asked her to marry him a few weeks ago. Her younger boyfriends are generally too intimidated to suggest such a thing. But Brahim has a mind of his own – he has introduced Madonna to his mother and accompanied Madonna to the Kabbalah center. In May, Madonna kicks off another world tour with Brahim as a principal dancer. She told Brahim she needs time to think about his proposal. When she divorced Guy Ritchie she declared "Never again!" but since then has softened on the idea. She's happy with Brahim, but won't be rushed.
Posted by Janet on March 4, 2012
26 Comments so far
By Muffie
On March 4, 2012 at
Wellll, I suppose he's got to get her to pony up somehow. When he outlives her, he will be in the prime of his life, with money to burn.
Not a bad gig! There are definately worse ways to make money. Shagging the OLD bag, is just part of a bigger plan.
By Christine India
On March 4, 2012 at
When these 2 false religions clash….(he is a Muslim and she is in Kabbalah)….look for WW III. And when Madonna falls, it will be a long and very difficult fall, very very unspeakably whore-able.
BTW, doesn't he look like a young Barack Hussein Obummer?
By Kitty
On March 4, 2012 at
Right on, Indie. The phrase "No fool like an OLD fool" comes to mind also.
By Bluejay
On March 4, 2012 at
Just considering Madonna's NY apartment, I'd ask her to marry me too, in hopes of getting a few thousand square feet.
By forrest gump
On March 4, 2012 at
she must hurry with her thinking.
By hello
On March 4, 2012 at
Don't do it maddonnna! Just fuck them and keep it moving.
By Ruben Bronx
On March 4, 2012 at
Ms. India "2 false religions", are you serious ?
You do of course realize all faiths, do, by definition, require the suspension of fact, for them to " work" .
They are all faith based, unproven, largely baseless or shared illusions and are all therefore, in varying degrees "false".
Arguing that one is somehow less false, is frankly, stupid. they're either all true or all false.
Please don't reduce faith to a team sport. Mine vs. yours etc.
By E
On March 4, 2012 at
1) If he's following her to Kabbalah, he does not have a mind of his own
2) She probably told him to ask her. Madonna controls every little thing about her life, and several others (reportedly Lourdes's completely scheduling her time down to fifteen-minute blocs, and probably David Banda's, and Rocco's when he's not with his dad)
By dark sided
On March 5, 2012 at
C'mon,Janet!Give us some real gossip.You copied this "story" word for word from DailyMail.You have no idea if it's even true.
By Denise
On March 5, 2012 at
Wouldn't it be cheaper if she just adopted him?
By Walt Cliff
On March 5, 2012 at
Denise, LOL! 🙂
By Say Something Nice
On March 5, 2012 at
She was shocked that he suppressed his gag reflex long enough to propose—in his halting english. 😀
(And this not-so-nice comment has NOTHING to do with her senior-citizenship—but is all about her rank personality.)
By Diva
On March 5, 2012 at
It will give the 15 year old daughter someone to play with.
By Mrs. Honoria Pilkinghorne
On March 5, 2012 at
Her lead dancer? Has she read the Brittney Spears biography?
By Patrick
On March 5, 2012 at
Ruben, you are far to logical and large brained for this site. Dumb it down a bit for us will ya.
Good one, Diva.
Hi, Miss Nice!
By Say Something Nice
On March 5, 2012 at
Hey, Babe 😉
By Christine India
On March 5, 2012 at
Patrick: What perzackly did Ruben say.?
Kabbalah, Islam, (and of course Scientology) are unspeakably bad bad bad. They shun the Gospel and salvation and all in these will end up where Hitler, Stalin, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc. are now. I'm entitled to my beliefs aren't I, just like everyone else is entitled to theirs, including atheist Reta. If Reta reads this, she will get on my case as usual. A song by Spike Jones applies here: The title is "I don't care".
By Mrs Patrick Campbell
On March 5, 2012 at
Is Brahim a homosexual?
By Mel Zipskin
On March 5, 2012 at
Bad idea, Madge. He will molest one of your kids. I have a bad feeling about him.
By Voltaire
On March 5, 2012 at
India: Of course you're entitled to your faith, just as others are entitled to theirs. Difference is you trashed theirs to make yours the best. And it's no different than any other.
By Patrick
On March 5, 2012 at
Chrissy, Ruben says…
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
By Christine India
On March 5, 2012 at
Patrick, LOL, I like your answer. 🙂
By Carol Gerard
On March 6, 2012 at
I hate the double standard!! It's perfectly ok for older guys to date and marry women young enough to be their daughters…but whoa!…an older woman w/a younger guy is a no-no! In Europe especially France, they revere older women. I date younger guys all the time….most guys my age are boring and out of shape!
By Chris
On March 6, 2012 at
I agree. Why double standards in the society? There have been more instances of older guys marrying younger (too young) women than the other way around. That is slowly changing.
By Hillary's Duff
On March 6, 2012 at
I wish this filthy disgusting and untalented Woman would just go away.
By ICYNDICEY
On September 5, 2012 at
Oh Lordy!!! I hope this time Madonna remembers the prenup!


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A pedagogical lunch for everyone
Our philosophy on school lunch is that students should be provided with healthy meals produced from fresh, high-quality ingredients which are eaten in a relaxed atmosphere, providing our students with energy for the rest of the day.
To complement the daily dish the students may choose from a variety of salads and vegetables at our large salad bar – we want to make sure that all students get the nutrition and energy needed to perform their best throughout the entire day.
We always serve a vegetarian alternative for students with different dietary needs.
Our lunch is also a pedagogical lunch. This means that teachers are always present and eat lunch in the dining hall as well to make sure that the environment is calm and relaxing. This also enhances the student-teacher confidence.
In addition to this, we offer breakfast, as well as an afternoon snack, every day at a cost of 10sek.
Breakfast takes place in the lunch hall from 07:00 - 08:00.
The afternoon snack is also served in the lunch hall, every day from 14:00 - 15:30.


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Furutech FT-111R
The FT-111 features an α(Alpha) pure copper one piece conductor for minimal impedance and nonmagnetic SUS set screw construction design, extremely nonresonant SUS housing and POM insulated body.
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Plus polarity—One piece Rhodium or 24k gold-plated α (Alpha) Pure copper tube injected with POM resin
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- Housing: Nonmagnetic Stainless steel.
- Insulation Body: Injection Black POM Resin.
- Connections: Set screws
- End Ring: Nonmagnetic Stainless steel
Thông số kỹ thuật
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- Housing dimensions: 14.0ψ×26.5mm overall length
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Intent to Present FAQ
What is the Intent to Present (ITP)?
The ITP is your chance to pitch an idea for programming at the 2018 Maine Science Festival. ITP is an online process that allows the Maine Science Festival community to have a significant voice in programming annual activities. There are forms for workshops, forums, hands-on activities, and Teen Tech Night.
Can Anyone Submit an ITP?
We are looking ideas from past, present and potential presenters who would like to offer programming at the 2018 MSF. Presenters should be able to participate and have expertise or knowledge to be part of the event. For example, if you are proposing a workshop about the science of ice cream, you need to be able to explain exactly what that is – or have a scientist as part of your workshop team who can explain it. Proposals that are accepted as programming for the festival will have support in arranging additional participants, moderators, etc. as needed.
When are proposals due?
We'll be taking submissions until November 10, 2017.
Why is the MSF asking for presenters?
We've had three years of impressive MSF events, and we are only scratching the surface of the science, engineering, technology and math that is happening all over Maine. Now it's time to make sure we don't miss out: with this Intent to Present, we are asking our partners and others let us know what they would like to present to festival goers.
What are the different types of MSF events?
We are looking pitches for forums and talks, hands-on activities, workshops and Tech Night.
What are the differences between those events?
Glad you asked! A forum is "a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged" and MSF forums are based around audience interaction with experts. Our forums generally include a panel of experts on a topic who will give an introduction to their work, followed by Q&A with the audience and other panelists. The science should be presented in a way that anyone who has taken high school science can understand it. Talks are essentially the same as forums, but presented by one person who then engages in moderated Q&A with the audience.
Hands-on activity is an activity where festival goers walk up to you and dive into the science you're presenting. The set up is similar to a vendor space at a conference. This is for all ages.
Workshops are a set period of time where you present a topic and work through it (for example, nature illustration, minecraft workshop, cheese making). The festival goer often (but not always) ends the workshop with something they can take home. The audience is determined by you and difficulty of the science and/or the workshop approach.
Tech Night is focused on exploring cutting-edge software and web-based tools. Workshops, hands-on activities and forums are available, with the audience being middle-school aged kids.
How do you choose which submitted programming is chosen?
Our programming team will go through the proposals, and the 2018 MSF program will be set up based on their recommendations. The programming team will make their judgments based on a number of different factors, including: type of science/math, type of event, audience, innovative approaches happening in Maine, revealing hidden secrets, diversity of programming from past years (we require different activities and events every year), balance of programming for all ages and events, and logistically what we can make work.


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Landslides, flooding close roads, highways in North Sound
Landslides and flooding have shut down two highways north of Everett - including a major connector for North Sound commuters.
Highway 9 is closed in both directions between Mount Vernon and Arlington, and crews say it will remain closed at least through Tuesday morning.
Highway 11 also is shut down just north of Oyster Creek Lane by an obstruction blocking all lanes. Crews expect to have the highway reopened by 5 p.m.
The Highway 9 closure has thrown a huge monkey wrench into the morning commute for North Sound residents. Water is running over the roadway in several places, and a mudslide has brought down large trees, mud, rocks and other debris.
There's a 10-foot concrete well container in that mess, too - so there could be some damage to the road itself. So for now, drivers will need to find a different way to Interstate 5.
The relentless rainfall in Skagit and Snohomish counties isn't making the situation any better. For their own safety, crews didn't begin clearing the roads until daylight.
Some other roads in the region also are affected by flooding - especially in the North Sound and in the Cascade foothills. State transportation officials urge all drivers to be careful.
Water on the roads is also causing some closures up in the Carnation and Fall City areas.
The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings for Snohomish River near Monroe and Snohomish, the Snoqualmie River near Carnation and White River at R Street.
King County has issued a flood warning for Green River upstream of Auburn.
Meanwhile, flood warnings have ended for the Snoqualmie River at the Falls and the Pilchuck River near Snohomish.
The continued flooding and heavy rain is caused by a Puget Sound convergence zone across Skagit and Snohomish counties, and the Cascades of King County.